Implementation and evaluation of an interictal spike detector

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ABSTRACT:Spreading depression has been implicated in the pathophysiology of a number of diseases such as migraine, stroke and epilepsy. The characteristics of this phenomenon were explored in neocortex of anesthetized rats. Spreading depression was produced in 10 of 15 animals using mechanical, electrical and chemical stimulation. Mean amplitude of the DC shift was -9.3 mV, mean duration at any one electrode 65 sec and rate of spread 2-5 mm/min. Spreading depression was facilitated by focal interictal spike activity induced by penicillin and completely blocked by the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, DL-2-aminophosphonovaleric acid (APV), providing further evidence that excitatory amino acid neurotransmission is a critical element in the development or propagation of the phenomenon.


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ABSTRACT:We measured biochemical markers of excitability in brain excised for neurosurgical therapy of epilepsy. Intraoperative electrocorticography was used to identify and compare samples from regions of persistent interictal spike discharges and areas of the cerebral convexity which were free of interictal piking. We found that interictal spiking was associated with elevated tissue levels of the excitatory amino acids glutamic acid (26%, p < 0.001) and aspartic acid (25%, p < 0.05). There was also a significant increase in the activity of the enzymes glutamic acid dehydrogenase (20%, p < 0.01) and aspartate acid aminotransferase (18%, p < 0.01) which are involved in their formation. There was no change in the levels of the inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA or taurine. We also found a significant increase in the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase (52%, p < 0.001), the rate controlling enzyme in catecholamine biosynthesis. There was a reduction in the density (Bmax) of cortical alpha-1 adrenoceptors (26%, p < 0.01) and a concommitant diminution of receptor coupled phosphatidylinositide metabolism (21%, p < 0.01). This blunting of inhibitory noradrenergic transmembrane signaling may contribute to a relative imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms in epileptogenic neocortex.


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